The
following Reader's Letter addresses two items published
today in the Daily Cal about the repeated attempts
to stop me speaking at Berkeley. Please publish.

I am
indifferent about Jennifer Rice's refusal (Letters,
Oct. 24) to regard me as an historian, Every university in
the Union, indeed in the U.K. and around the world, has many
if not most of my thirty books in its library; for students
at West Point, The Citadel, Sandhurst and other military
colleges my books are required reading.
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As for Rabbi
Rona Shapiro, whose B'nai Brith Hillel and whose
sister organisation the ADL,
the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai Brith, have been
orchestrating and funding the (often violent) attempts to
silence me methinks she uses the phrase "anti-Semitic" too
freely.

The topic of
my talk was Freedom of Speech. What does B'nai Brith find
offensive, or anti-Semitic, about that? Even had I touched
upon my well-founded skepticism about technical aspects of
that over-hyped tragedy, the Holocaust, is that tantamount
per se to anti-semitism?

If there is
rising anti-Semitism at Berkeley today, I venture to suggest
it is because of the authoritarian tactics used by Shapiro
to silence me and because of the street violence organised
by Messrs Barbara Frank, Shadow Moyer,et al.
of the Spartacists, from whom Shapiro quaintly and
disingenuously disassociates herself, although they relied
exclusively on the lies disseminated by the ADL. Besides,
there were too many witnesses of what Adam Schwarz,
former president of UCB's Israel-Action Committee, was up to
on the evening of my speech on Feb. 3 for Shapiro to get
away with what she has written in today's Daily
Cal.

Once again,
let me promise that I shall return. Eventually, Shapiro or
no Shapiro, Berkeley's students will have a chance to think
for themselves.

Shortly after
this letter was published, pressure was put on the US
Military Academy at West Point, the Citadel at
Charleston, the US Army Military College, and other
bodies by "concerned private citizens" to confirm that Mr
Irving's books were not used in their curricula.
Copies of that correspondence are in our
possession.